Rebecca MacKinnon Quotes

Increasingly, people have very little tolerance for anything that smacks of propaganda.

Rebecca MacKinnon

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Losing one grounds you a bit. I learned a lot after losing the title in 2009, learned that I was probably too intense that year, and when I didn't win, I just felt horrible.

Joel Parkinson

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I think that what people want is for government to function... not through temper tantrums and saying we are not going to participate, we are not going to play ball.

John Cornyn

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The difference between noise and music is in what the musician does with the sounds.

Jean-Michel Jarre

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This ceremony and the intellectual aura associated with the Nobel Prizes have grown from the wisdom of a practical chemist who wrote a remarkable will.

Stanford Moore

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A game is great, in my view, only if it can be played happily by a sane person of at least average intelligence for several hours a day for fifty years. Both pool and billiards qualify.

Robert Byrne

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I've written close to 20 screenplays and 100 sketches - I know exactly how to do them. They're judged by set criteria that I know.

Jay Chandrasekhar

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I feel like we were so naive when we first got started, we didn't even know we'd be around for two years, given how tough it was when we were first starting out.

Jay DeMarcus

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I had a big fight in my first week in secondary school. There was a kid in the year above who was nasty to me, and we ended up having a scrap. I can remember thinking that there was going to be some serious bloodshed if we didn't stop, so I made a decision to walk away. It was a difficult thing to do, but the most sensible.

Jonathan Stroud

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Everybody, every tradesman that worked for Shafin or built my house got fully paid, well paid. Everybody got paid. I would like that to be said if I could because I haven't said it before, and it's important. People kind of think we left all these plumbers or electricians without getting paid.

Shane Filan

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I very much admired Lancaster. George Clooney reminds me of him today. Not all the macho, swinging around that Burt used to do, but the courage. You know where you stand with men like that.

Norman Lloyd

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If we had loads of money as a family, things would be different and they'd come to visit more and I'd get to spend more time here. But I'm laying down roots in America so when I'm there, just being at home, it's harder to break away from that.

Rick Allen

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I think writing gives me creative freedom.

Marley Dias

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